Typical of the Rats....we don’t like the way the game is played....so we’ll change the rules.....
The risk for the Harry Reid Regime is that there might be a 51-49 Republican majority after the 2012 election.
Josef Stalin couldn't have said it any better.
So what is going to happen when the GOP gains the Senate majority in 2012?
The chutzpah of these people is unbelievable. Astonishing. They only try this stuff because they know their media mouthpieces will go out and bleat the party line like a herd of sheep. The rules they used to tie up the Republican agenda when they were in the minority are now horrible, unfair, illogical, immoral, evil. Baa-aa-aa-aa.
Somebody better tell Udall he will most likely be in the minority in two years.
Typical tactics by the dems. The filibuster is fine when it benifits the dems. When they are not the majority, all they talk about is minority rights, powersharing and compromise. The republicans had better n.ot let them get away with it...the republicans should filibuster any attept at.changing the rules!
If they change the rules, the Republican Senators need not show up, since their presence or absence will make absolutely no difference one way or another.
That’s the probably the intent, anyway.
Treason to America process of Governance, nothing less.
The Democrat Party can not win to enact their legal agenda based on the long standing practices of our Government so now they demand to change the rules since they lost the election.
This is so Chavez, and will do nothing but propel America down the road to becoming a tinpot dictatorship.
Are they really so stupid on the Left as to not think about the idea that the GOP will just use these same devices back on them?
Seriously?
I’d support both these rules changes. Back when we had the senate I thought it was a scam that dems could ‘filibuster’ a bill just by threat. If they’d actually had to ‘work’ for that filibuster, it would have been much more selectively used. OTOH, needing a 3/5ths supermajority to pass legislation isn’t really all that bad. It shouldn’t be easy to pass a bill.
I'd agree with that. Let the light shine in!
Also, look for more stories about "the homeless", coming soon to a Democrat newspaper near you... although the chic propaganda meme of the day seems to be tear-jerker stories about illegal aliens.
Fine. Abolish the filibuster. But do it like Obamacare and make it effective as of 2013.
The Democrats know that the Republican controlled House can block any more socialist power grabs. This is all about Senate confirmation of appointments, particularly judicial appointments.
Any judges that Obama pushes through the Senate during the next two years will be legislating from the bench for the next 30 years.
Governing as it suits them. They didn’t have a problem for the last 6 years, though, did they? Bat-turds.
Now that's funny. This is exactly their intended function.
I'd like to point out that the filibuster is totally non-constitutional. It is customary only, and a simple majority, the standard actually in the Constitution for the passing of rules, should be able to change it. A past Senate does not have the constitutional power to impose rules on the present Senate. IMO.
When R’s even thought about this for one supreme court nominee, the press immediately labeled it the nuclear option. Now a rat tries the same thing for all legislation—everything—and the crickets are chirping.
house pubbies should inform Reid that any Senate bill that proceeds with less than 60 votes for cloture is DOA in the house.
That sentence is not very clear. Is Udall objecting to holds in general or specifically anonymous holds?
IMHO, holds are fine. I see no reason why they should be anonymous.
MSM:
NUCLEAR OPTION!!!
NUCLEAR OPTION!!!
NUCLEAR OPTION!!!
Huh? What? dems are the ones doing it?
ahem...
A change in the structuring technical procedures of blocking debate by the minority yada yada yada yawn zzzzzzzzzzzzz